You control Doctor Sheerin, a brilliant researcher who finds a new and amazing thing: The Darkness. But his new discover didn’t got the attention of the population the way he desire: they want to destroy it. People are afraid of The Darkness, since the planet they live is surrounded by light all the time at each single point of its surface. So Doc. Sheerin must protect the reactor, a huge machine that generate and nurture a practical gun that fire shots of darkness at things, reacting extremely weird at living beings.

I plan to use SDL2 or SFML (c++) for the game development., focusing on the game mechanics (according to the winning theme). I have wrote a classical “I’m in“post there, with more details on how things will happen on my dare. See ya!

I’ve made some changes on a script I found on the internet these days to “remove” the audio ad when listening to Spotify on Linux (with the official Linux preview). The truth is, this script doesn’t remove the ad, just mute it (and all sound from Alsa on your computer), and unmutes when finished. Just it.

The original script uses PulseAudio to do the magic and let you play another song while the ad is “playing”. But as I hate PulseAudio and don’t want it installed on my system, I came with this “solution”. For me it’s working (Slackware-current 64 bits):

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It requires Alsa, libnotify (for notify-send) and, of course, Spotify for Linux version 0.9.10.17.g4129e1c (you can get the latest package for Slackware x86_64 here). Basically, the script starts spotify and waits 15 seconds to check if it is running and get its status via dbus. When it detects an ad, it mutes the Alsa master channel and unmutes when the ad finishes.

I saw that Alsa create a stream for Spotify, but I can’t get this information from command line. If you have some better solution that doesn’t involves PulseAudio, send a patch or comment about it on this post 😉

And FL Studio 11 runs pretty good on a Linux machine! Just installed with Wine, and it works out-of-box, without needing to configure anything additional (well, I already had DirectX installed here, I think it’s needed to properly running FL Studio).

There are just a minor delay on the audio output, nothing that can disturb you when creating sounds. Another drawback is the impossibility to use the ASIO4ALL sound driver. So, for the final mix, I prefer to use a Windows machine and render the output sound there.